This is not the approach Durham needed, with about 45 minutes of play left they could be five or six down at this rate.

Suddenly, the cheers among the home crowd are gaining in volume as Jordan Cox and Matt Critchley propel their side above the 200 mark - and they need just another 127 for victory.

Cox has just taken advantage of successive stray leg-side deliveries from Michael Rae, glancing both to the rope to advance to 73 not out, while Critchley has 36.

Warwickshire badly need a wicket.

Glamorgan opener Marnus Labuschagne has just gone to his 31st first-class century.

In his first appearance of the season for the county, the 28-year-old got there off 176 balls with a 17th boundary.

The Australia batter has guided the hosts to 219-3 and they now lead Middlesex by 59 runs.

Gloucestershire have bowled out Leicestershire for 371 and enforced the follow-on. They begin their second innings still trailing by 335.

Northants are going along well in their second innings against Derbyshire. Opener Emilio Gay has gone past fifty and they're 119-2, leading by 179.

This is a daunting target for any side to chase but the Blackpool pitch is playing well and so is Durham skipper Scott Borthwick.

He's on 39 and gets away with a leg bye off Tom Aspinwall.

David Bedingham defends initially, then sees out the over with a back-footed punch down the ground for four.

Zak Crawley is batting serenely and takes four more runs off Lewis Gregory with a front footed drive through cover.

The Somerset skipper drops short and Crawley pulls square for four more.

A pause in play as the umpires are invited to inspect the ball... and it's going to be changed for the fourth time in this innings.

Surrey win this encounter by 281 runs and now they go and face Hampshire at the Utilita Bowl on Friday before the County Championship takes a little break for a month.

We'll see if Rory Burns and his side can continue their march towards a three-peat.

Durham have been set an improbable 475 to beat Lancashire. If they are to pull if off it would be their greatest run chase, beating their 453-9 at Taunton in 2004.

They got off to a good start with the bat, playing some positive shots, but really needed to get through the session without loss. That hasn't happened though.

Following his five-for in the first innnings, 20-year-old seamer Tom Aspinwall was brought into the attack in the 17th over and got Alex Lees with his second delivery.

The batter chased one wide of off stump and clipped it to the keeper when he was on 40. It ended an opening stand of 83 with Scott Borthwick.

The Durham skipper is lucky to still be out there though, having been dropped by Luke Wells at first slip, off the bowling of spinner Nathan Lyon, when on 21. He now has 37.

And now Aspinwall gets Colin Ackermann without scoring for his seventh wicket in the match.

This is either madness or genius. Dan Lawrence went for just shy of 50 runs in three overs but he's been brought back to bowl another spell.

Ben Gibbon is immediately down the track to the off spinner, scooping the ball through mid wicket for four.

But he's out two balls later.

He tries a reverse sweep and the ball is high in the air...

Dan Worrall runs in from what is now a leg side boundary and takes the catch a couple of yards or so in front of the rope.

A defiant Worcestershire stand worth 71 in 10 overs is broken by batting hero Dan Lawrence, who hit 50s in each innings and that catch by Dan Worrall, who took 10 wickets in the match.

Worcestershire were riding high when they cut Surrey down to 15-4 on Friday morning but this is a resilient team, laced with talent and ever further away from their nearest rivals at the top of the table.

This has been a splendid knock from the Kent and England opener.

It's hard to believe he's only passed 40 once this summer before today.

He reaches the landmark with a drive through cover off Migael Pretorius.

201 balls with 23 fours.

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Sean Abbott bowls to Ben Gibbon, who smashes a half tracker over square leg for six.

He clubs a single just short of Dan Lawrence and then Yadvinder Singh spins across to slap a short ball through square leg for four.

That's a 10th wicket stand of 50 in just 38 balls!

A pause in play as the umpires decide to change the ball. To be fair, at has been smashed into the Galadari Stand quite a lot.

I just wonder here if Hampshire are just trying to survive the day a little bit and that can be a downfall for a lot of sides, especially when you're not chasing a particularly large total.

You can end up thinking we've just got 15 overs to bat to see out today and then get the job done easy peasy tomorrow but they need to make sure that they're in a decent position going into tomorrow and that would mean not really losing any more wickets than three, that is for sure.

This game is very much alive.

It has been a good game of County Championship cricket, both sides have had their moments.

Gus Atkinson persists with the short ball to Yadvinder Singh, who is back and across to flay the ball through point for four.

That takes the gap under 300.

There's a pause in play as the next ball strikes him on the wrist.

The physio is waved away and Singh sees out the over.

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A round of applause for Jordan Cox as he paddles a short ball from Che Simmons for a single to bring up his half-century.

Cox fell for 47 during Essex's first innings, but he's improved on that this time - exactly what the home side need as they pursue 330.

While Cox and Matt Critchley remain together, they're in with a shout - the pair have added 56 now and they've just passed the halfway point in this victory chase.

Zak Crawley is forward to Jack Leach and gets an inside edge to fine leg for one to bring up the 250 in the 58th over.

At the other end, Daniel Bell-Drummond stays in the crease and pulls Migael Pretorius through mid wicket for four.

Seven runs off the over in all.

Gus Atkinson tests Yadvinder Singh out with another bouncer and the Pears number 11 ducks.

Dan Lawrence has gone for 49 in three overs and he's been replaced by Sean Abbott.

Ben Gibbon carves the second ball through the off side but he'll only have time to run for one.

A decent shot from Yadvinder Singh pushes the ball through cover for two runs.

An Abbott bouncer hits Singh on the shoulder and is picked up at leg slip.

Singh digs out a yorker to end the over.